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The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, employment and policies to improve well-being

The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, employment and policies to improve well-being is a volume edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis and Laurie C. Maldonado, forthcoming with Policy Press. The book is expected to be available February 2018. More information is available on the Policy Press website.

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Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives.

This book – multi-disciplinary and comparative in design – shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed case studies of Sweden, Iceland, Scotland, and the UK. It covers aspects of well-being that include poverty, good quality jobs, the middle class, wealth, health, children’s development and performance in school, and re ects on social justice.

Leading international scholars challenge our current understanding of what works and draw policy lessons on how to improve the well-being of single parents and their children.